The OLD CLOSED Post Your Campsite/gear/knife/hiking/anything Outdoorsy Pic Thread!

[attej]

I went on a two-day hike last weekend... tried out some new equipment (sleeping bag), hiked 10 miles, and drank some fine single malt whiskey with my friend. Here's the pics:

1. An overview of the area. You can't see the swamps from this view, the trees are blocking them, but there is a few swampy areas in there, roughly two miles wide each.

2. Packed and ready to go:

3. Some easier terrain:

4. ...and some not-so-easy terrain:

5. Thats me crossing the swamp:

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[attej]

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Continued:

6-9. How to build a fire in the rain in four simple steps:

...collect wood:

...cut it:

...cut it some more:

...and burn it!

10. You can find all sorts of weird deformed things in the woods. And strange-looking trees too

 

[Bushman5]

make a war club with that tree!

 

[Shore08]

Great pics, we're just waiting for it to cool down a bit here so we can get out some more.

 

[Bushman5]

my new bear control kit, consisting of a TRU-Flare launcher, 12 bear bangers, 6 flares (soon to be replaced with either Bear Screamers, Bangers or Capsicum Loads), a zippered case and a crushproof, waterproof, dust proof Hi-Viz Orange Pelican 1120 Case to protect and house the Bear Tools:

UPDATE:

got the pick and pluck foam all dialed in:

 

[jca21]

bushman, did you pick up that kit locally?

 

[BarberFobic1992]

attej, dont get too close to that tree, i think it has herpes.

 

[Bushman5]

bushman, did you pick up that kit locally?

sure did! Shawn from Deakin (warehouse store) (my outfitters) set me up with that. Around $140 CDN after taxes. Could have gotten it cheaper at the local hippie haven outdoors store but they pissed me off. Besides, Deakin has been outfitting me for forestry and mining for many years now. :thumbup:I'd rather pay more for gear and get great service and awesome attitude, than pay way less and get treated like dirt.

nuff said.

EDIT: Mods, sorry, i dont know if its Kosher to list where gear was bought? please let me know and i'll edit the post if i'm in the wrong

another pic of new gear in a minute

my nw J-Siah fixed blade heavy camp knife. this is J-Siahs biggest (i do believe?) blade yet.

Very tough! very beefy. Thick, squarish, no nonsense micarta scales (most people like rounded micarta scales, these are not for them, they are slightly rounded, squarish and freaking BEEFY! , beefy brass pins and lanyard tube. Black coated blade (IMHO, J-Siah, don't coat the blades, this steel is beautiful and will develop a nice patina. Deadly sharp, right out of the box. OOOOOH and that sheath......incredible hand detailing, beautiful golden brown patina, intricate barbed wire leatherwork, flawless sticthing.

dear god i am going to use this knife, it feels perfect in my hands, even MORE SO than my #1 choice of blade (Ranger modded Becker BK7).

i love it. Thank you J-siah. Can i tempt you into making a BIGGER blade, same style? say around 12" long blade? :thumbup:

EDIT: since i treated the sheath with OBENUAF's LP some got onto the micarta slabs, resulting in a VERY NICE deep forest green coloring. (pic soon) PERFECT!

UPDATE: here is the pic withe micarta a deeper green (from Sno seal and obenuafs)

 

[Mikel_24]

What kind of grind does that knife have Bushman? Just a single full convex bevel/edge? I can't see any transition line in the ricasso area.
Mikel

 

[baldtaco-II]

 

[ilten]

Since I was in Maine last week to attend my best friends wedding, I decided on a little side trip to New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
Sitting at the fire on PEI

Hiking the Coppermine Trail in Fundy NP, NB

Bay of Fundy

and ofcourse a knife shot:

ilten

 

[Bushman5]

What kind of grind does that knife have Bushman? Just a single full convex bevel/edge? I can't see any transition line in the ricasso area.
Mikel

i think so, i'm too sure on the different grind patterns....J-Siah can you add to this?

 

[baldtaco-II]

 

[Bushman5]

Some custom finished by me 'Hawks ('Nam & Rifleman's) , my leaf spring heavy bowie (1/4" thick, deadly sharp), my wee lil Muela Mouse skinner, my new J-Siah heavy camp knife.

 

[Bushman5]

new ManFrotto tripod, with bubble level, pan/tilt/rotate levers:

what a difference the tripod makes in the lack of shaking/vibration in the pics:

while i was outside today, i had a visitor land on my hat:

found this in the park: (its about 12" wide)

 

[zen_grasshopper]

Recently picked up a new pack and a new knife. The pack is a North Face Terra 40, and the knife is a Bark River Aurora. I didn't think that I was going to be able to test them out anytime soon as this is the busiest time of the year for me and I am on call 24/7.

Luckily I had to attend a training out of town, so there was no way for me to respond to calls. I checked the net and found a nature preserve a few miles out of the town I was staying in.

13 miles of trail, and I hiked it all. Unfortunately there is poison ivy everywhere in the area and the wooded areas are so thick that it wasn't practical to go far off trail.

This little guy was about 20 yards from me when I took the picture. He was a lot closer, but he moved away when I reached for my camera in my pack.

After this I couldn't take anymore pictures as the camera broke right after the picture was taken.

Jon

 

[lambertiana]

attej - What kind of pine is that visible in most of your pictures?

bald-taco - Those pictures made me think of Jethro Tull's song Jacks in the Green. In a concert he introduced the song, explaining that they watch over England's green and pleasant woodlands.

For today - In Nine Lakes Basin, Sequoia NP

 

[attej]

attej - What kind of pine is that visible in most of your pictures?

I had to check it from wiki, in here it's just called "mänty", i.e. "pine"

It's the Scots Pine, Pinus sylvestris. It comes in all sizes and shapes, and as you can see in pics 4 and 5, in the swamps it can be really scrubby. Even the seemingly small ones in the swamps can easily be tens or even hundreds of years old, while in the drier forests they grow many times thicker in the same period of time.

It is extremely common in Finland, and it has had an important role both in modern day paper industry, and also back in the old days when it was used for making tar. A certain layer of the bark was also used as emergency food during famines a few centuries ago.

Btw, here's an interesting pine I found earlier this year;

..and here are two more, the one on the right is dead and dried up, it's called "kelo". They are really good fire wood, but since they are relatively rare, it is not allowed to cut them down.

A close-up of the kelo:

 

[lambertiana]

Attej - Thanks, I thought it looked like Scots Pine. I wasn't sure how widespread they are across northern Europe. They are a popular ornamental tree in some parts of the US, and can be seen planted in many people's yards and in parks. Where I grew up in upstate NY, there are places where Scots Pine has been planted in tree farms (I'm not sure if it was intended for lumber or pulp, but I remember walking through those areas).

 

[Bushman5]

Nuclear winter and the barren wasteland: (taken this morning at a 1000 acre dirt fill site. The fog was so dense in parts i was going less than 1km an hour )

Beast in the mist rearing up:

yet amongst the wasteland of the fill site, there is beauty and life:

clover bloom:

morning fog/dew on grass blade, clover bloom and on a tiny leaf:

there are also plants with built in defense systems: